Monday, March 24, 2014

We saw the Kaina boots worn at Domme a Domme, and we headed to PixelFashion for a closer look.

We heard from Deesselle Destiny, the PixelFashion bloggers group admin, that Amandine Arai hasn’t been online for some time - we wish Amandine well, as we’ve received no replies from contact attempts with her or Ono Zinner, her partner.

That said, the boots looked good so we thought we’d share them with you. The demo includes all colors in the HUD so you can get a good idea whether you’ll love them or not.

The foot shape and heel are more to my taste than to lelo’s; more fashion than outrageously fetish, let’s say.

The boots are in different parts, each colorable separately; the colors are good but the tints are mostly dark - a bit more light would have been good in some, at least.

There is materials at work - and fitted mesh! - as the shine and texture clearly show. This is a thoroughly modern boot, and a design of excellent quality.

There are limited color packs - something that I believe should be a thing of the past. The color packs are 550L$ but the fatpack is 1100L$, making it a bit steep in my opinion.

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Feels like ages since we featured some Immerschoen fetishwear, but Nici and Gismo are still hard at work, creating beautiful shiny clothing ;)

We visited the store a while back and the Mesh Overknee Laced Boots totally grabbed lelo. We looked around a bit for something matching in pvc and laces, and found the Zara Catsuit. Tada! ;)

Immerschoen shine is very good, unmistakable PVC. The boots feature a platform and high stiletto heel, and very detailed mesh laces over a great texture - you see the indents of the laces in the material. They’re even laced up the back!

Note the “Latex” tag on the boots, because Immerschoen has a ton of them - even a bunch in denim textures, recently.

So if inexpensive, good-looking PVC is what you’re looking for, drop by Nici and Gismo’s big, beautiful store, you’ll find a lot to like there.

lelo:
High time for something shiny from Vienna tonight in the form of a catsuit and overknee boots by Immerschoen.

The catsuit comes in good old cloth layer, consisting of pants, jacket, gloves and stockings, you also get a prim collar hiding the always troublesome neck line.

Sadly the smoked latex inserts are part of the jacket so you can’t play around with it.

The boots really caught my eye, i love those hidden platforms and the heels are pretty much lethal, which is good in my book.

The lacing back and front would be a horror in RL, a good reason of having your own bootslave. *winks*

They come in 5 sizes from XS to XL, I’m wearing the M so they are a bit big as i’m usually wearing L.

Give Immerschoen a look, they have a wide range of low priced, high quality clothing.

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Part of the harness is fitted mesh: the vertical strap below the middle ring, to be precise.

The rest is non-rigged mesh, fairly easy to adjust. In fact, Marine gives detailed instructions on adjusting your harness one strap at a time. (That will produce a better fit than you see in our pics - our very short production time, sadly, will do that.)

There’s a ton of goodies in the harness, including a leash handle giver. There were a few small bugs in early releases - if you have them, read the details here and fiddle if you like, or simply visit one of Marine’s updaters.

Our colleague (or esteemed competition, if you like) Aria Warden did a nicely detailed review, as she usually does. Do visit her blog and have a look!

lelo:
Miss RLV, Marine Kelley, for those who have been living in a dark dungeon for the last years, has come out with a new harness.

Coming from Marine you are assured of the usual RLV abilities and follows the script layout we have come to know for years now.

The new features are that the harness is making use of the latest fitted mesh for part of the harness.

This part works great, adjusting the standard rigged parts to it takes a bit more work, Marine has chosen this way of working to give you the ability to adjust the upper part to lolas or tight corsets.

The second new feature is the fact that you can adjust tint and the pattern on the harness.

There are 35 preset colors, but you also get the option to enter the RGB code of your own favorite color.

With pattern you can add seams, studs or text to you harness, always with the option to interchange the background and text color.

So in all a very nice harness that should match any outfit you have, just plan some time to adjust it perfectly to your body.

Monday, March 17, 2014

June 2013 saw us move from Phoenix to Firestorm as the new Server Side Baking made Phoenix unusable.

Adventurous early adopters (whom I privately refer to as “unpaid beta testers”) have since then jumped on the Firestorm Beta for the lovely materials and assorted new features. Good for them, but we left that one alone.

The Firestorm team released (to the wild!) the new version, 4.6.1.40478, on March 12th and we installed it on March 15th - nobody can say we’re lagging behind this time!

So for the last three days lelo and I have been enjoying the new Firestorm. In for a penny, in for a pound, we went for the 64bit version.

Once again, the word is all good. Very fast everything: rezzing, teleports, inventory - this may be the HTTP network improvements mentioned on the Firestorm viewer blog .

Materials, of course, was the one big thing we were waiting for. All I can say is “ooo, shiny!” ;) Steph gave a gentle chuckle as I was finally able to see DeVicious leather glisten properly.

The lighting issue also seems to be gone. Facelights had turned into 500-watt flood lamps in the previous FS, but that resolved itself with this upgrade.

Backing up settings, removing everything and doing a clean install, then restoring settings meant I didn’t wrestle with the same configuration questions I hit in June.

The new FS did poke me to get the latest NVIDIA driver - I’m a late adopter there too. So, all good - call it spring cleaning.

Liquid mesh is also included in this release, and we already have designers calling us privately with liquid mesh items.

We’re guessing this version will spread fast (although not quite the way the sudden death of Phoenix forced everyone to migrate) but with its great new features (and some terrific UI cleanup I won’t itemize to avoid boring you) we’ll certainly encourage anyone to upgrade.